Rough crossings : Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution
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New York : Ecco, [2006].
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First edition.
ISBN
9780060539160, 006053916X
Physical Desc
xiv, 478 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 326 SCHAMA 2006
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Published
New York : Ecco, [2006].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780060539160, 006053916X

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-451) and index.
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In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone.--From publisher description.̓

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Schama, S. (2006). Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution (First edition.). Ecco.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Schama, Simon. 2006. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution. Ecco.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution Ecco, 2006.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves, and the American Revolution First edition., Ecco, 2006.

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